Work At Home And Permitting Others To Work In Your Property Advantages and Pitfalls

It is surprising how having the delivery of a parcel to your house can spoil your daily plans. I’m talking here about the sort of parcel that needs to be receipted, so you have to be at home when the delivery is made. Equally as bad can be arrangements with trades people who are to carry out jobs at your house. Luckily for me I work from home so matters can be a bit easier. I do not have to organise time off work or rely on a neighbour. What’s more, because lots of my work from home revolves around online jobs I am able to very easily break off what I am doing when the doorbell rings.

Last week however I had a problem. I had arranged for an interior decorator to spend a day or two decorating my lounge. Such arrangements are normally great when you work from home but these particular arrangements didn’t work out too well due to the distraction caused. It is easy to imagine that your work from home will go ahead peacefully whilst a tradesman does his work, but it wasn’t to be this time. Although the most willing and easy going of people, the decorator turned out to be habitually noisy. So much so that his presence was a significant distraction from my work from home jobs.First off his presence was accompanied by loud transistor radio music, which I put up with for a while but then had to ban. This only then resulted in whistling, singing and a virtual continuous need for a conversation. Eventually I agreed to the radio being turned back on.

All in all my efficiency must have suffered as a result. I certainly seemed to spend much more time in my office than I normally do. The moral of the tale would appear to be check out your tradesman first. Get somebody who has done jobs for somebody you know, and get a noise report before you engage!